Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern amateurs, died 31 years ago. In the years since his death, collectors have rummaged through attics, farmhouses, junk shops, looking for work of other self-taught geniuses. For amateur artists (sometimes called "self-taught," "primitives," "popular painters"), working without benefit of formal art-school rules, often, like untrained folk musicians, create quaint pictorial myths that outshine the work of educated artists. Inexpert at perspective and anatomy, they paint awkward, stiff figures, flat shadowless backgrounds. But although they have the technique of children they have the patience of adults, so that their laborious work has the charm of finely detailed...
...Fifth Connecticut District, of which Litchfield County is the biggest part, sent a Republican to Washington even in the Roosevelt landslide of 1932. But he won by only 78 votes. Factory workers who poured into Waterbury (pop. 99,314) might show an unmistakable preference for the Democrats; city folk from Manhattan-advertising men, editors, surrealist painters, proletarian novelists, foreign correspondents, returned expatriates-might turn the old Republican farms into weekend places. The farmers and their small-town allies-the lawyers, hardware dealers, bankers-scrutinized the newcomers carefully and tried to keep right on running things. But the Democrats beat them...
Porgy and Bess (by DuBose Heyward; music by George Gershwin; produced by Cheryl Crawford) seemed better last week than when first produced in 1935. With most of its dull, draggy recitative deleted, Gershwin's folk opera of Charleston's swarming "Catfish Row" came warmly to life...
Contributions from New York University, Wisconsin, and the University of Chicago, as well as other colleges, will be presented in the forthcoming issue. An article on the myth of American jazz, "The Persistence of Folk" will also be included...
...guileless, homely face is the face of a true man of good will. The most appealing new character of this year of war, he is almost sure to end up in the exclusive kingdom of children's classics. He may not become a U.S. folk hero, but he is certainly the mammal-of-the-year...